Chapter 39

Chapter 39

Brooklyn

I gasp and push the door shut and then bolt-bolt-from the hallway.

I've always been fast, but now, panic moves me faster than I thought I could go.

I scramble up the stairs, sprint across the kitchen, pull open the kitchen door and then use the banister to propel myself up the main stairs two steps at a time.

Aden is a monster! He's an actual psychopath!

Of course, I had already made this assessment-in jail when I'd interviewed him. Then again when he kidnapped me. But now?

Seeing it play out like that right in front of my face, the truth feels like it has hit home inside of me.

I reach the top of the stairs and throw myself towards my room, my fingers inches from my doorknob, when something grabs me around my waist, hauling me back against a solid body—

"Please! No!"

I scramble, shrieking, trying to get free, but Aden holds me fast. He grabs me by the hair at the base of my neck, forcing my head back, my face turned up towards his.

I pant in his arms, pinned against him, finally still.

do, Brooklyn?" he asks, his voice

rationale for being there. "I forgot

deliberately disobeyed me," he says. He doesn't care about my reason

my feet working to keep up

bedroom press

swings opens, and then we're in my room. I work hard to align this beautiful, safe space

brought the monster

pushes me up against the wall. My breath

against mine. I blink up at him, realizing that he's completely calm. That he's

a calming effect. The Mafia King may have rejected his Alpha roots long

feel it so strongly I could

starts coming more evenly. I look up into his face, and he

in my hair, beginning to stroke slowly at

tear my eyes from him as he brings his

me work?" he asks,

my lip starts to tremble. I see him

know what happens to people who watch me when they're not supposed to?" he

I shake my head

mouth close to my ear, the stubble of his jaw brushing

punished," he

my breath matching up with my pounding heart, my chest pressing

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